BEIRUT (AFP)- Syrian rebels battled jihadists from the Islamic State of   Iraq   and Greater   Syria   (ISIS) near   Damascus   Monday, pressing their bid to expel them from their strongholds, an activist group said. Rebels holding positions in...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abo Dijana, ٍٍS haria judge of the Islamic State group in Southern Damascus has been killed on Saturday, according to activists and rebel sources. Qate’a Abo Bakr al-Siddik (dubbe: Abo Dijana) was killed...

Damascus, July 19 (IANS) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Saturday appointed Najah Attar as the new vice president, media reported. Najah Attar has served as the vice president for cultural affairs since 2006 and the new presidential decree has appointed her as the sole vice...

(Al Jazeera)- Syrian government forces have launched a counterattack to recapture a gas field seized by the Islamic State group, activists say, even as the death toll from three days of fighting there rises to 270. The intense fighting in the Shaer field, which lies in the...